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125: Mary O’Malley

May 10, 2016 By Eric Zimmer 5 Comments

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This week we talk to Mary O’Malley about awakening to the world around us

Mary O’Malley is an author, teacher, and counselor whose work awakens others to the joy of being fully alive. Her inspired and transformative approach to compulsions offers a way to replace fear, hopelessness and struggle with ease, well-being and joy. Through her individual counseling and coaching, books, classes, retreats and ongoing groups, Mary invites people to experience the miracle of awakening.

Acknowledged as a leader in the field of Awakening by many Mary clearly sees both the big picture and the details of human patterns and conditioning. She possesses an extraordinary ability to understand and connect with people. And she is skilled in empowering people to work with difficult mind states resulting in greater inner awareness and presence and a greater capacity for joy. Eckhart Tolle says, “Thank you, Mary, for your contribution to the evolution of human consciousness.”

Her latest book is called What’s In the Way, Is the Way: A Practical Guide to Awakening.

In This Interview, Mary O’Malley and I Discuss:

The One You Feed parable
The intertwining of good and bad, the yin and yang
Dealing with eating problems
How what we fight, we empower
Creating a relationship with the dark side
The impact of the early years of our lives
The conditioned self
How we are addicted to struggle
Being present to life instead of thinking our way through life
The “low-grade suffering” that permeates our lives
The storyteller in our minds
The Four Let’s- Let Life, Let it Be, Let it Go,
Learning to not listen so closely to the storyteller in our mind
The difference between being here for life and being in a conversation about life
The power of curiosity
The core spells that we tell ourselves
Look to Unhook
The power of human attention to heal
Sticking with these practices even when it seems to be going slow
Watching for tightness in yourself as a trigger to let go
Learning to be here for whatever life presents
The gift of our compulsions
Having a set of beliefs that empower us versus take our power away
Life is set up to bring up what is bound up so we can open up to be freed up so can show up for life
Not being the victim of life
Having the ability to come back to the heart

Mary O’Malley Links

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Eric’s Bookshelf

Looking for a good read? Here’s a list of categorized books that are personal favorites of Eric, host of the show. You can’t go wrong with any of these books.*

Fiction

A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Brothers K
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Midnight’s Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Tenth of December : Stories by George Saunders
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Humans by Matt Haig
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Matthew Scudder Series by Lawrence Block

*In the Spirit of Full Disclosure: The links for the above-listed books are Amazon affiliate links & we’ll be compensated if you buy stuff from Amazon using those links. You pay no more and the show gets a few pennies.

That said, your trust means everything to us and we would never recommend anything lightly – these are all books that have had a profound impact on Eric during the course of his life.

Catherine Gray on Unexpected Joy

March 5, 2019 By Nicole Silberman Leave a Comment

Catherine Gray is a listener favorite guest on the show. She’s been on once before to talk about her book, The Unexpected Joy of being Sober and we received so many messages about how people loved the conversation Eric had with her. In this episode, she’s here to discuss her new book, The Unexpected Joy of being Single: Locating Happily Single Serenity. Are you single? Then obviously this episode is for you. Are you in a relationship? Then – unexpectedly – this episode is also for you! Too often, people stay in bad relationships because they’re afraid of being single, afraid of being alone. You don’t want to feel trapped where you are – you want to be empowered knowing that where you are is where you CHOOSE to be – not where you HAVE to be. So, re-framing what it means and what it’s like to be single opens up everyone’s world by bringing you to the point of choice about your relationship status, rather than the point of “panic settling” or “victim mentality” about your relationship status. Trust us, you’re going to like this one.

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In This Interview, Catherine Gray and I Discuss…

Her book,The Unexpected Joy of being Single: Locating Happily Single Serenity
That being single is not terrible!
How being single is a whole lot better than “panic settling”
That being single can be nourishing and refreshing – it has everything to do with reframing the way you see it
Enjoying where you are at the time
That there are pros and cons to being in a relationship and there are also pros and cons to being single
The “if-then” happiness loop that’s a moving target
How you get used to what you have and then you shoot for the next thing
Choosing your perspective on your life and counting up your gratitudes
That being single is WAY BETTER than being in a bad relationship
How people stay in bad relationships because they’re afraid of being single, afraid of being alone
What being a “love addict” means
How you need bonding with 5 people in your life – not just 1 – to be happy
How essential it is to like yourself in order to be happy in a healthy relationship
The three different attachment styles that are created in early childhood (but can be changed in adulthood): anxious attached, secure attached, avoidant attached
How feminism – in other words, equality – has made it socially acceptable for women to be single now
A thought doesn’t have to lead to an action
Don’t let yourself get too “HALT” (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired)

Catherine Gray Links

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If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these other episodes:

Catherine Gray (First interview 2018)

Mary O’Malley